Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Golden Gun, Fleming...
...group on 30-minute call, finally a wave on an hour's notice. On the average, within 17 minutes of a platoon leader's radioed call for help, the jets can be over the target with almost any combination of weapons he might need: .50-cal. machine-gun bullets, cannon shells, Bull-Pup missiles, Zuni rockets, napalm, 260-lb. to 3,000-lb. bombs. At the newest of the fields, Chu Lai, leveled and surfaced with aluminum matting by the Seabees in less than 30 days last spring, the runway is still so short that the jets take...
That lead didn't last long. After the kickoff Cornell ground out yardage from their own 32 to Harvard's 21 in 14 plays. The big gun on the drive was halfback Pete Larson, who had entered the game with a 7.9 ward rushing average. He accounted for 37 yards on the march, including a 26-yard run. But when Cornell had a first down on the 26, the Crimson's defense held. At 1:18 of the period Zogby kicked the field goal which tied the game...
...again until the fourth quarter, when Bob Machin blocked a punt and Tony Kilkuskie recovered the loose ball in the end zone. Then in a spectacular but hopeless finish, Berg passed 32 yards to halfback Gary Strandemo, who made an acrobatic grab on the goal line as the final gun sounded...
...March morning in 1900, a small boy crouched along the bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...